Argh.
I expected to know whether or not I have this job by now. Instead there's a second interview next Monday. And then who knows how long until I know?
Feh.
Anyways.
I bought Rock Band 2. I'm a sucker. Couldn't wait, and I know I'm not getting it for Christmas. My drum set from Rock Band one has totally given out.
A few weeks ago I noticed that my yellow pad was only picking up about 60% of my hits. It made it virtually impossible to do well on any song, because that's the most used pad. I couldn't keep any kind of streak going.
It got progressively worse until I decided to try to fix it. Now it doesn't work at all. Maybe it picks up around 0.5% of my hits. So that's pretty rough, but whatever. I can still make it through songs that don't use that pad too heavily - Vasoline by STP and the like.
Then I noticed my red pad started making a different sound from its normal one. More hollow. There's really nothing to be done about that, so I left it alone. The next night, after finishing Clouds Over California by DevilDriver, I noticed some strange black fuzz on my red pad. Some of it had been rolled up into a long strand. Oh wait, that's not a strand of rolled-up fuzz, that's a tear in the pad.
Yeah, I ripped open my snare drum. But hey, it still plays basically the same as it did. That's not as big a deal as it sounds. So the next night I was playing, finished the same song, exhausted, drenched in sweat, a little delirious, I noticed a strange accessory next to me on my couch. "What's this?" I thought. I examined it. "It looks like a large splinter of wood. What is this doing here? Oh, I see. It looks like... the last five inches of a drum stick."
I then thought to examine my sticks. Turns out the one in my right hand had shattered. I don't know when.
So, great. Now I can't drum, I don't have enough sticks. The next day I'm doing some Christmas shopping at the Virgin Megastore, which is going out of business. I find a discounted set of Super Special OMG Drumsticks For Rock Band. Why not? They're only $6.
So I put them together and tried them out that night. For some reason, they decided to make drumsticks that have unscrewable handles. During the entire song, I'm concentrating on not letting these things come apart in my hands. I figure I need to change my grip, maybe I can get used to it. Next song, the one in my right hand comes unscrewed and goes flying across the room. I pause the game and go to fix the stick. Only after about 30 seconds of trying to screw this thing back together do I realize that the screw has broken off in the socket.
So... now I have one wooden stick, and one heavy rubber coated metal stick, one pad that doesn't work, one pad that has a tear in it and is losing sensitivity, and a kick pedal that is held together with tape and two butter knives.
Fuck it, I'll just buy the next game.
It's so much better. The pads are much bouncier, quieter, more sturdy, and the kick pedal is reinforced with metal. I'm having a lot of fun. I'm also trying to drum as gently as possible, out of fear.
I expected to know whether or not I have this job by now. Instead there's a second interview next Monday. And then who knows how long until I know?
Feh.
Anyways.
I bought Rock Band 2. I'm a sucker. Couldn't wait, and I know I'm not getting it for Christmas. My drum set from Rock Band one has totally given out.
A few weeks ago I noticed that my yellow pad was only picking up about 60% of my hits. It made it virtually impossible to do well on any song, because that's the most used pad. I couldn't keep any kind of streak going.
It got progressively worse until I decided to try to fix it. Now it doesn't work at all. Maybe it picks up around 0.5% of my hits. So that's pretty rough, but whatever. I can still make it through songs that don't use that pad too heavily - Vasoline by STP and the like.
Then I noticed my red pad started making a different sound from its normal one. More hollow. There's really nothing to be done about that, so I left it alone. The next night, after finishing Clouds Over California by DevilDriver, I noticed some strange black fuzz on my red pad. Some of it had been rolled up into a long strand. Oh wait, that's not a strand of rolled-up fuzz, that's a tear in the pad.
Yeah, I ripped open my snare drum. But hey, it still plays basically the same as it did. That's not as big a deal as it sounds. So the next night I was playing, finished the same song, exhausted, drenched in sweat, a little delirious, I noticed a strange accessory next to me on my couch. "What's this?" I thought. I examined it. "It looks like a large splinter of wood. What is this doing here? Oh, I see. It looks like... the last five inches of a drum stick."
I then thought to examine my sticks. Turns out the one in my right hand had shattered. I don't know when.
So, great. Now I can't drum, I don't have enough sticks. The next day I'm doing some Christmas shopping at the Virgin Megastore, which is going out of business. I find a discounted set of Super Special OMG Drumsticks For Rock Band. Why not? They're only $6.
So I put them together and tried them out that night. For some reason, they decided to make drumsticks that have unscrewable handles. During the entire song, I'm concentrating on not letting these things come apart in my hands. I figure I need to change my grip, maybe I can get used to it. Next song, the one in my right hand comes unscrewed and goes flying across the room. I pause the game and go to fix the stick. Only after about 30 seconds of trying to screw this thing back together do I realize that the screw has broken off in the socket.
So... now I have one wooden stick, and one heavy rubber coated metal stick, one pad that doesn't work, one pad that has a tear in it and is losing sensitivity, and a kick pedal that is held together with tape and two butter knives.
Fuck it, I'll just buy the next game.
It's so much better. The pads are much bouncier, quieter, more sturdy, and the kick pedal is reinforced with metal. I'm having a lot of fun. I'm also trying to drum as gently as possible, out of fear.